Women Undergoing IVF To Donate Eggs For Stem Cell Research In Return For Reduced Treatment Costs, UK

The MRC is to fund a research proposal from a team at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) for a project to find ways of improving the efficiency of therapeutic cloning - a technique which would allow scientists to create patient-specific stem cells and develop regenerative therapies for many debilitating conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and Parkinson’s disease. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Stem Cell Research on September 20th, 2007